Making a Multiplayer FPS from Scratch - Galaxy Grudge Dev Log

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Hello everyone, and welcome to another GG devlog!
In this video, we're talking about the current state of the project, along with some exciting prospects for the future.
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[@starvosxant4348]

Honestly, the way its looking, now even without textures and preprepre-alpha, is astonishing. Now, from an indie to another indie dev, how do you expect to handle the multiplayer side of thing? Because we know that servers for multiplayer games are needed, and they cost...

[@galaxygrudge]

Yeah so right now, users can host their own games to play against friends. Hopefully down the track we can get some dedicated servers up so folks can play competitive matches also

[@pleasantlygrim6712]

Looking forward to playing your game and following your tutorials. Just please don't make the mistake I've seen countless times with small pvp games like this where players become highly skilled from playing hours of the beta/testing period. This makes your beta testers burnt out when the game finally releases and also makes it so that new players get destroyed by the skilled players which creates a vicious cycle. Instead I would suggest hosting events where players can come and try out the game. So basically only let people play for testing purposes only to avoid the downward spiral I mentioned previously. I can already tell this game would be hard to put down.

[@krysocz4250]

Very cool project you got there. Wish you the best of luck.

[@Sonicboomcolt]

Been watching the dev of this game on Reddit and other sources and I'm quite impressed. I too have made an arena-shooter so it is amazing that they are still being made.

[@galaxygrudge]

This is great to hear! Feel free to join our Discord if you haven't already - best way to follow along with the stuff we're doing, and you can also get involved with dev or feedback if you like!

[@426F6F]

This game is going to be huge someday! I'm excited to see how it develops!

[@EagleTopGaming]

The sound first approach to weapon design is really interesting. There is something really appealing about that approach.

[@TheRealFulzy]

Earned yourself a sub man great vid! I will just say if it’s free to play, don’t go the way of micro transaction after micro transaction

[@426F6F]

I could see maybe having the option to buy cosmetics or fast-track unlocking stuff in the game if there are unlockables, but paying for stuff like maps, special characters, or weapons would be too far.

[@dachii6260]

This game is promising! I see this bringing back arena shooters! I hope you dont mind me creating videos on the game .

[@galaxygrudge]

Please do! The more people we have interested in our project, the better :D

[@Mekkablood]

The amount of work you've done is astounding. Even making your own sounds. I'm a dev too but stick with single player as it's way easier. If I could make one suggestion is to make sure the weapons don't look just cool, but feel great and make sense. I always worry about slime like weapons especially. I think you're onto something, and if you can make a solid branding of something unique but attractive, that all the while feels solid while playing, you'll be a huge success.

[@thevestarr]

That's very impressive, can't wait to se the updates!

[@galaxygrudge]

Thanks a lot for checking us out! There will many more updates to come in the near future :D

[@tendo6385]

this is some insanely high quality content!

[@swisspunker94]

very impressive! Since you are more of an art guy im impressed you tackled the network problem. Im working on my own multiplayer game and you really need to know your stuff to get networking right

[@kingjackal4902]

I grew up playing my Dad's Xbox Original and some of my favorite games were Halo CE and Unreal Tournament/championship, i went on to practice Illustration and writing but I always wanted to try doing game development. but a lack of experience in coding and 3d art held me back, but now I'm finally taking the plunge and trying to learn those things. so seeing this and your tutorials is beyond inspirational.

[@galaxygrudge]

This is really encouraging for me to read that the project is inspiring others to get on board. Thanks a lot for checking our game out!

[@branidev]

I loved UT3 i think it was with vehicles capture the flag mods, we plan LAN so much with boys... then though GARENA or Hamachi we always loved UT more than Quake, holding fingers for you ;)

[@AuxiarMolkhun]

Game looks sick and reminds me of Unreal Tournament a lot, one of the main arena shooters I played as a kid. My only suggestion so far is for your UI, absolutely replace any instance of the default Roboto font that's in Unreal, and change the button/dropdown renderers to get rid of the "image" rendering mode because it's always slightly under-rez for whatever monitor you'll be viewing it on. Both go a LONG way in making the game look less like "Just another Unreal game" and really help to make it stand out in quality, even if it is just the tiniest of touches.

[@galaxygrudge]

Hey there, thanks for the kind words! Appreciate it. And yeah I totally agree - the UI needs a LOT of work before it feels anywhere close to professional. Sometimes I wish there were more hours in each day so I could spend more time on this sort of stuff. I'd love to get a UMG person onboard to give all the menus a facelift :D

[@Emppi]

Looking like a blast! Hoping to test this soon :)

[@SLAVKINGRED]

comically violent but the discord does not want extreme violence.

[@AstralBrando]

The sounds are great too!

[@galaxygrudge]

Thanks bud! Glad you like it 😉

[@gooficat]

absolute W, arena shooters are way too uncommon nowadays do you plan to release for pc primarily, or will it be console-available too? what launcher/store will it be on initially?

[@galaxygrudge]

Yeah so right now, it's intended for PC on Steam. I don't have any console plans right now, as I just don't have the extra resources currently to cater to more than one development environment.

[@rifz42]

looks very cool! I hope you don't go overboard with too many effects and overlays..

[@galaxygrudge]

Yeah we hope to get a good balance for onscreen elements - do you have any examples of games you feel went too far with that sort of thing?

[@SuperMillwall]

This looks absolutely insane lol. Will you be adding full Gamepad support to this?

[@galaxygrudge]

I intend to!

[@moregamingplayz9002]

damn dude wish i could help you with sculpting the character model but i am still learning zbrush 😂

[@Displant]

nice job

[@xylvnking]

tight

[@DwunkenPenguin]

4:38 lol, amen to that.

[@chillygangster3497]

This is cool! I wanna play this! This is so much like unreal and unreal tournament, epic games fucked up their legacy they destroyed what made them great, its time we the gamers greate our own projects to bring the nostalgia back that is missing in todays games! Todays games are boring.. too many battle royales.. all copies.. nothing unique.. no soul

[@aaronstarling9837]

Hey there friend! Any resources around net code you’d recommend? I’m diving into it myself right now and banging my head into the wall.

[@galaxygrudge]

What are your main problems? I'm planning a video in the near future covering a bunch of multiplayer logic

[@zerohcrows]

If you're taking requests, I'd love a video on networking or sources on where you learned from! Also, did you build this with Lyra?

[@galaxygrudge]

I did not use Lyra to build GG, but yeah I'd be more than happy to do a networking video. What kinds of things would you be interested in seeing?

[@zerohcrows]

​@@galaxygrudge Aye, thanks for the quick response! Really interested in optimization right now so videos on that would be amazing. Honestly, anything networking related would be great.

[@SLAVKINGRED]

im game

[@TBEplays260]

hey, Just a friendly suggestion for your game. Can you change the "Suicide" text to something like "Self-Kill"